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Definition of Knuckled
1. a. Jointed.
Definition of Knuckled
1. Adjective. (chiefly in combination) Involving a certain type of knuckles. ¹
2. Verb. (past of knuckle) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Knuckled
1. knuckle [v] - See also: knuckle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knuckled
Literary usage of Knuckled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aristophanes' Apology: Including a Transcript from Euripides Being the Last by Robert Browning (1875)
"Don't pay the poor ambiguous compliment Of fearing any pearl-white knuckled fist
Will damage this broad buttress of a brow ! ..."
2. Reports of Committees by United States Congress. Senate (1871)
"George M. Chapman, from whom claimants purchased, swears that said "model barge
was about l-! feet long, built of oak, round-knuckled, and sharp at both ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Jack Broughton became the third champion and introduced the sole bare-knuckled
fight with the broadsword and other combats discarded. ..."
4. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1900)
"Then you'll be knuckled"; and knuckled they were, according to ancient experience.
Head-knuckling is no trifle; " Molly " Fairburn of the old days could not ..."
5. The Finding of Wineland the Good: History of the Icelandic Discovery of America by Arthur Middleton Reeves, William Dudley Foulke (1895)
"The Judge and I formed its acquaintance one night this summer at Oban, and knuckled
under promptly to its charms. I am pining to knuckle again. ..."
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